Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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- Topic: Appreciation, compliment
- Location: Capital Reef National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
